Proclamation 522—Enlargement of the Fish Lake Forest Reserve, Utah

Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes", "That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof";

And Whereas, it is further provided by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes", that "The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve";

And Whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that The Fish Lake Forest Reserve, in the State of Utah, established by proclamation of February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range three (3) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township twenty-two (22) South, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range four (4) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the township line, to the north-west corner of Section eleven (11), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range four (4) East; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel South to the north-east corner of Township twenty-six (26) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty-six (26) South, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence easterly along the Fifth (5th) Standard Parallel South to the southwest corner of Township twenty-five (25) South, Range two (2) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the south-west corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section four (4), Township twenty-three (23) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section nine (9), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the southwest corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township, the place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry. or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided , that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this 2nd day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By the President:

FRANCIS B. LOOMIS,

Acting Secretary of State.